Nvidia pays homage to classic racers with the upcoming free demo of Nvidia Racer RTX

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Nvidia is throwing a bone to all upcoming GeForce RTX 40-Series card owners with a free tech demo for Nvidia Racer RTX. Designed to show off the immense power of the new GeForce RTX cards, this small new title sports “real time ray tracing, DLSS 3, and PhysX.” As Nvidia puts it, Racer RTX features “the most realistically rendered RC cars ever.”

The near 4-minute long trailer gives us our first look at the variety of different richly-detailed scenes in the demo. We see a bedroom, backyard, and neighborhood, all with copious amounts of beautifully rendered textures and insanely accurate lighting, shadowing, and reflections. Almost every model contains realistic imperfections, such as scratches and scuffs on the tires of the vehicles.

As the saying goes, seeing is believing. Shortly into the trailer you can see how well these meticulously designed cars zipping around the very realistic homemade tracks. The homacge to classic racers like Re-Volt is clear.

Re-Volt is a cult classic 3D racer from the late ’90s that similarly had players navigating RC cars through various real-world environments. It was considered a true gem of its time and was praised for its visual fidelity. Now, over two decades later, we can see just far that fidelity can go with modern technology.

In Nvidia RTX Racer, players will be able to fully explore the title’s beautiful environments, and freely interact with all the scattered objects. There are nearly 2,000 objects that Nvidia’s artists handmade by making use of the new NVIDIA Omniverse, “a platform for 3D content creation and collaboration.”

This tech demo not only demonstrates the power of the architecture of the RTX 40 Series cards but also the tools that Nvidia has made for developers to help